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Campbell Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-18-1912
Campbell v. United States - 224 U.S. 99 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Campbell v. United States, 224 U.S. 99 (1912) Campbell v. United States No. 161 Argued March 6, 1912 Decided March 18, 1912 224 U.S. 99 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus As 566, 649, and 700, Rev.Stat., do not make any provisions for such a case, the trial of a case in the district court of the United States without a jury is in the nature of a submission to an arbitrator, and the court's determination of issues of fact and questions of law supposed to arise on its special findings is not a judicial determination, and therefore not subject to reexamination in an appellate court. In such a case, the circuit court of appeals has no power to consider the sufficiency of facts found to support the judgment, but is limited to a consideration of such questions of law as are presented by the Page 224 U. S. 100 record proper, independently of the special finding; and, in the abs...
San Juan Light and Transit Co. Vs. Requena
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-18-1912
San Juan Light & Transit Co. v. Requena - 224 U.S. 89 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court San Juan Light & Transit Co. v. Requena, 224 U.S. 89 (1912) San Juan Light & Transit Co. v. Requena No. 96 Argued December 13, 1911 Decided March 18, 1912 224 U.S. 89 ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR PORTO RICO Syllabus Denial by the trial court of a motion to strike from the complaint allegations as to exemplary damages does not harm defendant if the court instructs the jury that only compensatory, and not exemplary, damages can be recovered. Where the parties, with the assent of the court, unite in trying a case on the theory that a particular matter is within the issues, that theory cannot be rejected when the case is in the appellate court for review. The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is that, when a thing which causes injury, without fault of the person injured, is shown to be under the exclusive control of defendant, and would not cause the damage in ordinary course ...
Thomas Vs. Taylor
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-18-1912
Thomas v. Taylor - 224 U.S. 73 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Thomas v. Taylor, 224 U.S. 73 (1912) Thomas v. Taylor No. 171 Argued February 28, 1912 Decided March 18, 1912 224 U.S. 73 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Syllabus How an action brought in the state court shall be denominated is for the state court to determine. Although the common law action of deceit does not lie against directors of a national bank for making a false statement, and the measure of their responsibility is laid down in the National Banking Act, Yates v. Jones National Bank, 206 U. S. 158 , an action may be maintained in the state court regardless of the form of pleading if the pleading itself satisfies the rule of responsibility declared by that act. There is, in effect, an intentional violation of a statute when one deliberately refuses to examine that which it is his duty to examine. The fact that a statement of the condition of a national bank is not made voluntarily, but u...
Beutler Vs. Grand Trunk Junction Ry. Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-18-1912
Beutler v. Grand Trunk Junction Ry. Co. - 224 U.S. 85 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Beutler v. Grand Trunk Junction Ry. Co., 224 U.S. 85 (1912) Beutler v. Grand Trunk Junction Railway Company No. 14 Submitted March 6, 191 Decided March 18, 1912 224 U.S. 85 CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Courts may not abolish an established rule of law upon personal notions of what is expedient, and so as to the fellow servant doctrine, even if it be, as it has been called, a bad exception to a bad rule. In cases tried in the United States courts, the court must follow its understanding of the common law when no settled rule of property intervenes. The fellow servant rule applies where the character of their respective occupation brings the people engaged in them into necessary and frequent contact even if they have no personal relation. An employee of a railroad company engaged in work in the repair yard is a fellow servant of the crew of a s...
Henry Vs. A. B. Dick Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-11-1912
Henry v. A. B. Dick Co. - 224 U.S. 1 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Henry v. A. B. Dick Co., 224 U.S. 1 (1912) Henry v. A. B. Dick Company * No. 20 Argued October 27, 1911 Decided March 11, 1912 224 U.S. 1 ON A CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus Complainant sold his patented machine embodying the invention claimed and described in the patent, and attached to the machine a license restriction that it only be used in connection with certain unpatented articles made by the vendor of the machine; with the knowledge of such license agreement and with the expectation that it would be used in connection with the said machine, defendant sold to the vendee of the machine an unpatented article of the class Page 224 U. S. 2 described in the license restriction. Held that the act of defendant constituted contributory infringement of complainant's patent. This Court does not prescribe the jurisdiction of courts, federal or state, but only give...
Cedar Rapids Gas Light Co. Vs. Cedar Rapids
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-11-1912
Cedar Rapids Gas Light Co. v. Cedar Rapids - 223 U.S. 655 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Cedar Rapids Gas Light Co. v. Cedar Rapids, 223 U.S. 655 (1912) Cedar Rapids Gas Light Co. v. City of Cedar Rapids No. 163 Argued February 29, 1912 Decided March 11, 1912 223 U.S. 655 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF IOWA Syllabus Where the general power reserved to regulate rates is only limited by the Fourteenth Amendment, no franchise contract will be presumed to imply that the municipality under its reserved right to regulate rates must only reduce them to such a point that there will be a margin to allow a discount for prompt payment. A municipal ordinance drawn in form of a contract to be accepted by the franchisee, when accepted, becomes a contract, and is subject to the reserved powers of the municipality as limited by the laws of the state. The practice and decisions of this Court are that 709 Rev.Stat. does not give to a writ of error to the state court in a chancery c...
Clason Vs. Matko
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-11-1912
Clason v. Matko - 223 U.S. 646 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Clason v. Matko, 223 U.S. 646 (1912) Clason v. Matko No. 178 Submitted February 26, 1912 Decided March 11, 1912 223 U.S. 646 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA Syllabus Where the statute provides for an agreed statement on which the case can be submitted, a stipulation between the parties as to certain facts will not be considered as an agreed statement superseding the pleadings, but only as an agreement relating to the facts enumerated in the stipulation. This Court is not disposed to reverse a lower court on its construction of a stipulation in the conduct of a case, even if the stipulation be ambiguous. While there may be a distinction between abandonment and forfeiture of mining claims, there is no distinction as those terms are used in 3241, Rev.Stat., of the Territory of Arizona. That which is taken subject to a right cannot be a burden upon that right. Section 3241, Rev.Stat. Arizona...
Ripley Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-11-1912
Ripley v. United States - 223 U.S. 695 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Ripley v. United States, 223 U.S. 695 (1912) Ripley v. United States Nos. 498, 499 Submitted December 22, 1911 Decided March 11, 1912 223 U.S. 695 APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS Syllabus Where the power of the government over the contract is complete and its agent's decision is conclusive, a corresponding duty exists that the agent's judgment should be exercised reasonably, and with due regard to the rights of both contracting parties, and in this case, as the Court of Claims has found that the agent's decision was a gross mistake and in bad faith, the contractor is entitled to recover the damages actually sustained by him by reason thereof. Where there is no provision in the contract for an appeal from the decision of the agent in charge, the contractor does not have to appeal to a higher officer from the decision of the agent whose judgment and decision is expressly made final by the contract. For the con...
Graham Vs. Gill
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-11-1912
Graham v. Gill - 223 U.S. 643 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Graham v. Gill, 223 U.S. 643 (1912) Graham v. Gill No. 173 Submitted February 29, 1912 Decided March 11, 1912 223 U.S. 643 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA Syllabus Overruling objections to admission of evidence other than field notes of surveys is in effect passing on effect of the requirements of 2396, Rev.Stat., and, in regard to surveys of public lands, involves a federal question reviewable by this Court under 709, Rev.Stat. Evidence other than field notes of a survey of public lands may be admissible if it has a legitimate tendency to precisely locate the land, even though it may tend to show an error in the field notes, and, under the circumstances of this case, such evidence was proper. French-Glenn Live Stock Co. v. Stringer, 185 U. S. 47 . 56 Fla. 316 affirmed. The facts, which involve the admissibility under 2396, Rev.Stat., of evidence other than field notes in regard to location ...
Tang Tun Vs. Edsell
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-11-1912
Tang Tun v. Edsell - 223 U.S. 673 (1912) U.S. Supreme Court Tang Tun v. Edsell, 223 U.S. 673 (1912) Tang Tun v. Edsell No. 45 Argued November 7, 1911 Decided March 11, 1912 223 U.S. 673 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Under the Acts of August 18, 1894, c. 301, 28 Stat. 372, 390, and of February 14, 1903, c. 552, 32 Stat. 825, the decision of the question of citizenship of a Chinese person seeking to enter the United States is final unless reversed on appeal by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and unless it affirmatively appears that the executive officers acted unlawfully or improperly, or abused their discretion, their finding is conclusive, and not subject to review by the Courts. In this case, it appears that the requirements of the law were satisfied, and there is no ground for judicial intervention. The decision of an appeal is nonetheless that of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor because communicated by the Assistant S...
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